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Schneier on Security: AI Data Poisoning

Mar 26, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/ai-data-poisoning.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Data Poisoning Feedly Summary: Cloudflare has a new feature—available to free users as well—that uses AI to generate random pages to feed to AI web crawlers: Instead of simply blocking bots, Cloudflare’s new system lures them into a “maze” of realistic-looking but irrelevant pages, wasting the…
Slashdot: Open Source Devs Say AI Crawlers Dominate Traffic, Forcing Blocks On Entire Countries

Mar 26, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/26/016244/open-source-devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries Source: Slashdot Title: Open Source Devs Say AI Crawlers Dominate Traffic, Forcing Blocks On Entire Countries Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges faced by software developers, particularly open source maintainers, in managing aggressive AI crawler traffic that overwhelms their repositories. This scenario underscores the urgent…